UK, EU Working on Data Access to Resolve Post-Brexit Trade Row

Britain on Monday agreed to share live data with the European Union on trade with Northern Ireland, a step towards resolving long-standing issues arising from post-Brexit trade rules governing the region. Is.

British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly and European Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic said the deal in London was an important step towards further negotiations on the trade rules, known as the Northern Ireland Protocol.

“They agreed that a number of important issues needed to be resolved in order to move forward today on how to proceed with respect to the specific question of EU access to UK IT systems,” a joint statement said. A deal was made.”

“He said that this work was an important prerequisite for building trust and providing reassurance, and provided a new basis for EU-UK discussions.”

A spokesman for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told reporters that the agreement was “an important step forward”.

Irish Foreign Minister Michael Martin welcomed the joint statement and said he would be in Brussels on Tuesday for talks, including on protocol.

In order to maintain a 1998 peace deal between the British territory of Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland and avoid a hard border between the two, Britain will remain part of the bloc’s single market for goods as part of its departure from the EU. Inward agreed to effectively leave Northern Ireland.

The rest of the United Kingdom has required checks on some goods coming from January 2021, although many of them have not since the UK implemented a grace period. It has also subsequently sought to rewrite the deal to reduce those barriers and promote freer flow of goods.

The EU has long sought live or semi-live data on goods moving from the UK to Northern Ireland so that they can be screened on arrival.

Britain has created a new system to provide the EU with real-time customs data, safety and security declarations and some transit information relating to Northern Ireland, in an attempt to ease EU concerns that goods Can enter Ireland without paying EU customs duty.

“We are delighted that they are now starting to use the system and are working with (the UK government) more broadly,” a Sunak spokesman said.

“Some progress has been made but there are still important issues at the heart of the protocol that need to be addressed,” he said, referring to issues such as the role of the European Court of Justice in any trade dispute.

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